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So universal basic income?

• anoncoward111 8y ago
  Not quite. UBI is millions of people subsidizing everyone. This is more like 300 fanatical content consumers deciding to give a certain person $5 a month so that they spend as much time as possible producing content.
  • Tomte 8y ago
    See also "1000 True Fans": https://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/ https://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/
  • dredmorbius 8y ago
    Present global ad spend is on the order of $600 billion, distributed very roughly across the 1 billion wealthiest inhabitants of the world, or approximately the inhabitants of wealthy industrial nations. This works out to roughly $100 per person per year, or about $8.33/mo. Allocating this as a tax would more than replace all present spending on authors, screenwriters, journalists, and musicians.
• dredmorbius 8y ago
  Quite probably something similar to this, yes.